Unavailable with Artist Erica Bailey

This installation embodies our physical and psychological explorations of the every day architecture of home. To begin, each member of our group created a diorama reflective of their personality and inner experience. Using these dioramas as a springboard, we contemplated the nature of the space we would create together. Through a series of brainstorming sessions, we established the essential material and conceptual characteristics of our built environment titled, Unavailable.

In the space of this installation there exists both disorder and the promise of order. There is a sense of disorientation and frustration as one finds that the features and furnishings of the room are strangely oriented and an absent phone rings repeatedly. This experience is then countered by alternate experiences of the space provided by the miniature dioramas. Though everything is in its proper place and the ringing phone seems within reach, it is, in reality, inaccessible. You are unavailable to take the call or, rather, the call is unavailable for you to take.

Student Artist
Katreena Dyrek, Crystal Lake
Harold Washington College

Nicole Blasi, Woodstock
Jennifer Cortes, Woodstock
Ana Patricia Cortes, Woodstock
Angel Cress, Lake in the Hills
Lindsay Doran, McHenry
Karly Free, Woodstock
Anna Gontkovic, Lake in the Hills
Morgan Ondo, Woodstock
Ayrre Rogers, Fox River Grove